Food + Policy

A field of wheat in Mykolayiv, Ukraine.

Op-ed: Food Price Spikes Are About Much More than Ukraine

By Jennifer Clapp

May 16, 2022

The global food system is a house of cards. Here’s how to fix it.

NYC Street Food Vendors: ‘We’re Not Hurting Anyone’

By Max Rivlin-Nadler, Hell Gate

May 13, 2022

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 07: People gather for a rally held in support of street vendors targeted by NYPD in Hudson Yards in Manhattan on May 07, 2021 in New York City. Various organizations and elected officials along with street vendors gathered to speak about the alleged targeting of street vendors by NYPD, who Mayor Bill de Blasio had announced would no longer oversee street vendor enforcement. In January, City Council passed Intro 1116, a bill that lifted the permit cap for street vendors by 4,000 permits for the first time since the 1980s. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Oregon Adopts Nation’s Strongest Farmworker Protections for Heat and Wildfire Smoke

By Lynne Terry, Oregon Capital Chronicle

May 12, 2022

Farmworkers in the field in high heat and wildfire smoke

In the Face of Numerous Threats, Bees Are Producing Less Honey

May 9, 2022

Jorts the Cat Wants You to Care About Farmworkers’ Rights

By Twilight Greenaway

May 6, 2022

Jorts holds the new zine created by Jean.

The Field Report: We Asked the USDA About Its New Garden—and Its Larger Climate Goals

May 5, 2022

Tom Vilsack breaks ground at the USDA People's Garden. (Photo credit: Tom Witham, USDA)

The Next Frontier of Labor Organizing: Food-Delivery Workers

May 4, 2022

Uber Eats app delivery gig worker photo Photo by Sargis Chilingaryan on Unsplash.

Farmers Trial Climate-Friendly Chickpeas in Upstate New York

By Liz Susman Karp

May 3, 2022

Jean Taber (left), and Carl Taber (center) stand on a grain drill while planting chickpeas for the first time in June 2020.

Op-ed: Monopolies Are Giving Chicken Farmers a Raw Deal. We’re Urging States to Act.

By Patti Anderson and Mike Weaver

May 2, 2022

Manual worker in farm for broiler chickens

$1,000 a Month for Farmworkers? Proposed Payments Aim to Help Amid Drought

By Melissa Montalvo, CalMatters

April 29, 2022

MESA, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 27: Agricultural laborers pick lemons inside the orchards of Samag Services, Inc, where they grow Avocado, Lemons and Oranges. The bottom has fallen out of the Avocado market as restaurants close during this period of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Agricultural workers have become essential workers in the race to maintain Americas food supply while simultaneously staying healthy. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)

The Field Report: Congress Grills Beef Industry Leaders Over Consolidation

April 28, 2022

Coy Young (right) and other ranchers testify in front of the House Agriculture Committee on cattle price fixing on April 27, 2022. (Photo by the House Agriculture Committee)

In the Battle Over the Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative

April 27, 2022

The Oggún Tractor. (Photo courtesy of Ronnie Baugh Tractors)

US Farmland Increasingly Controlled by Foreign Investment

By Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest

April 22, 2022

The Field Report: Conservation Dollars Funding CAFOs Instead of Soil Health

April 19, 2022

industrial agriculture tractors working in a corn or soy or wheat field

How Mexican Public Health Advocates Fought Big Soda and Won

April 18, 2022

Coca-Cola billboard

On the Rural Immigrant Experience: ‘We Come With a Culture, Our Own History, and We’re Here to Help’

By Naomi Starkman

April 14, 2022

As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Push Back

By Wesley Brown

April 13, 2022

Lays potato chips are displayed at a Dollar General store in Vallejo, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

‘Slaves for Peanuts’ Tells the Tragic Story Behind America’s Favorite Snack

By Gosia Wozniacka

April 12, 2022

jori lewis and the cover of her book, slaves for peanuts

Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

April 11, 2022

Can produce prescription programs turn tide on diet-related disease?

Surviving Small Restaurants Push Forward as Pandemic Ebbs

By Aallyah Wright, Stateline

April 8, 2022

Leland, Miss., natives Lisa and Cedric Bush smile this month inside their newly opened restaurant, Bush’s Kountry Cafe, formerly the Leland Café. Over the past two years, restaurants have struggled to stay afloat, but some states have passed measures to help them survive. (Photo credit: Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts)

Op-ed: Fake Meat Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis

By Philip H. Howard

April 7, 2022

Impossible alternative protein fake meat burger. (Photo CC-licensed by Ted Eytan)

What Will the Rise of Giant Indoor Farms Mean for Appalachian Kentucky?

By Twilight Greenaway

April 6, 2022

An Appharvest employee harvesting tomatoes in Morehead, Kentucky. (Photo courtesy of Appharvest)

The Field Report: New UN Climate Report Urges Food Systems Solutions—Before It’s Too Late

April 4, 2022

WILEY, CO - AUGUST 22: Cattle crowd inside a feedlot operated by JBS Five Rivers Colorado Beef on August 22, 2012 in Wiley, Colorado. The severe drought has dried up most of eastern Colorado's natural grassland, forcing many ranchers to sell off much of their livestock to feedlots, which fatten up the cattle for slaughter. More than 50 percent of high plains areas of eastern Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas are still in extreme or exceptional drought, despite recent lower temperatures, according to the University of Nebraska's Drought Monitor. The record-breaking summer weather, which has affected more than half of the continental United States, is expected to drive up food prices by 2013, due to lower crop harvests and the adverse effect on the nation's cattle industry. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

US Taxpayers Are Spending Billions to Keep Farms on Flooded, Unproductive Land

By Georgina Gustin, InsideClimate News

March 31, 2022

Flooded soybean field

Photo Essay: How Nourish New York Is Still Feeding NYC

March 29, 2022

Sustainable caught fish from Long Island’s Haskell's Seafood, a family run fishery, being delivered to the kosher Masbia pantry in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.